Letteratura

Sweethearts

WILLIAMS, EMMETT · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€395.00 ($435.37 | £329.49 | ¥69,532)

New York, Something Else Press. 1967, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. Unpaginated. Pale blue boards with red lettering to spine. All edges with matching blue stain. Decorative unclipped dustjacket with light shelf-wear to edges and small scuffed patch to front. Emmett William...

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry

WILLIAMS, EMMETT (ED.) · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

New York - Stuttgart, Something Else Press - Edition Hansjorg Mayer. 1967, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. x, 342pp. Silver-grey coloured boards with black lettering and black cloth spine. A fine rare first edition of the famous milestone anthology of concrete poetry edit...

Him

CUMMINGS, E.E. · 1927 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

New York, Boni and Liveright. 1927, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [iv] 145 pp. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with black cloth spine. Shelf-wear to corners and discoloration to spine. Slight staining to bottom of first pages otherwise internally good copy of ...

The Enormous Room

CUMMINGS, E.E. · 1922 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€595.00 ($655.81 | £496.32 | ¥104,737)

New York, Boni and Liveright. 1922, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (iv), 272 pp. Original tan-coloured cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition (first state with the word "Shit!" uncensored in the final line of page...

Glad Ghosts

LAWRENCE, D.H. · 1926 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

London, Ernest Benn Limited. 1926, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, 12mo. 78pp. Yellow paper wraps, printed in black on upper cover. Glassine dustjacket. Scarce stated first edition (limited to only 500 copies) of Lawrence's short story Glad Ghosts, with the extremely uncommon...

Young Lorenzo: Early Life of D.H. Lawrence

LAWRENCE, ADA (AND GELDER, G. STUART) · 1931 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€275.00 ($303.11 | £229.39 | ¥48,408)

Florence, G. Orioli. 1931, Numbered Limited Edition. Vellum. Book, 8vo. xiv, 276pp. Vellum-covered boards with red phoenix device to front and lettering to spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Original dustjacket with photograph of Lawrence to front. Numbered Limited Editio...

The Symbolic Meaning

LAWRENCE, D.H. · 1962 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

Arundel, Centaur Press Limited. 1962, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. (xii), 264pp. Black cloth boards with gilt to spine. Top-edge stained purple. Unclipped (35s.net), stiff paper dustjacket. First edition of the uncollected versions of Studies in Classic American Literature...

Clea

DURRELL, LAWRENCE · 1960 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

London, Faber and Faber. 1960, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 287pp. Orange cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket with trifle scuffing to front. Altogether a superior first edition example of Durrell's wonderful conclusion to 'The Alexandria Quart...

The Pyramid

GOLDING, WILLIAM · 1967 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.05 | ¥10,562)

London, Faber and Faber. 1967, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 12mo. 217pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket designed by Leonard Rosoman. Really fine first edition of these three interlinked stories from the Nobel Laureate. Fine/Fine.

Patagonia Revisited

CHATWIN, BRUCE; THEROUX, PAUL · 1986 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin. 1986, First Edition. Cloth. Ill.: Williams, Kyffin. Book, 12mo. 62 pp. Navy coloured boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket with minor lightening to spine. Stated first edition in fine condition. A 'lively and delightful curio' by...

On the Black Hill

CHATWIN, BRUCE · 1982 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1982, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 249 pp. Pale blue-grey boards with gilt to spine. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket by Mon Mohan. Fine first edition of Chatwin's third book and first novel, set in the Welsh borders. Winner of the 1982 James Tait Bl...

The Web of Easter Island

WANDREI, DONALD · 1948 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Sauk City, Arkham House. 1948, First Edition. Cloth. Book, 8vo. 191 pp. Black cloth boards (Holliston Black Novelex) with gilt to spine. Unclipped ($3.00) illustrated dustjacket by Audrey Johnson. First edition of 3000 (=3068) copies. Signed "Cordially, Donald Wandrei" on ffep...

Poems 1924-1933

MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD · 1933 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin. 1933, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Beige cloth with red and black to spine. Unclipped ($3.00) dustjacket. MacLeish's selection from his own work, including Conquistador, the last poem in this collection (which won him his first of three Pulitzers) and ...

Western Star

BENÉT, STEPHEN VINCENT · 1943 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

New York, Farrar & Rinehart. 1943, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. viii, 181 pp. Black cloth boards with gilt to front and spine. Top-edge tinted light blue. Dustjacket (designed by Hilda Scott) complete with mild signs of age and is strengthened internally. This posthumo...

Selected Poems

A. E. (RUSSELL, GEORGE WILLIAM) · 1935 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1935, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Navy-blue boards. Front board with decorative blind tooling. Gilt to spine and top-edge. Illustration to title-page with tissue guard. Russell's own choice from his own poetry in a beautifully designed Art No...

The Incredible Journey

BURNFORD, SHIELA · 1961 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1961, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Burger, Carl. Book, 8vo. (8) 119 pp. Green boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Top-edge tinted yellow. Unclipped (12s 6d net) dustjacket illustrated by David Rook. Illustrated by Carl Burger. The re...

Steps

KOSINSKI, JERZY · 1969 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

New York, Bantam Books. 1969, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, First paperback edition, October 1969. Kosinski's second novel and winner of the National Book Award, in new, unread condition. Fine.

The Wickedest Witch in the World

NICHOLS, BEVERLEY · 1971 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

London, W.H. Allen. 1971, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Jacques, Robin. Book, Cream-white boards with gilt to spine. Decorative, unclipped (£1.30 net) dustjacket designed by Robin Jacques. Beverley Nichols's extremely rare fourth novel with only marginal spotting to extremit...

The Naked and the Dead

MAILER, NORMAN · 1948 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

New York, Rinehart and Company. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [viii] 721pp. Black boards with white lettering to spine. First edition, first issue (with Rinehart logo to copyright page) of the critically acclaimed first novel by Mailer about his experiences during...

The English Patient

ONDAATJE, MICHAEL · 1992 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

London, Bloomsbury. 1992, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [x] 310pp. Blue boards with gilt to spine. Blue ribbon marker. Illustrated unclipped dustjacket with photograph of Ondaatje to rear flap. A completely unblemished first edition of Ondaatje's (joint) Booker Prize wi...